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>From: Randy Provan <address@hidden> >Organization: Applied Computing Systems, Inc. >Keywords: 200007261642.e6QGgMT00909 LDM Randy, >I forgot to talk to you about your met exchange system. We are still >looking at the mechanism by which we share met data with between our >Army installations, support organizations and interested 3rd parties. Our LDM (Local Data Management) system is what you should be looking at. It has nothing to do with weather data per se. It is a package that is used to move data "products" from machine-to-machine and is the basis of our Internet Data Distribution system. >When we last talked it sounded like your system tracked who had what, I think that it really is. >who needed what and who was allowed what. Is the software public domain >or are you restricted to sharing within the University community? It is copyrighted software that is freely available. It is in use literally around the world. >If it >is shareable, do you have a document describing the software and setup >requirements? The best thing for starters is for you to read through our web pages that describe the LDM and our IDD: Unidata Home Page: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ Software http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/Software.html LDM http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/index.html Unidata Home Page: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ Software http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/Software.html Relevant Links, IDD http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/idd/index.html >Let me know a little about your software and I'll give >you a call on my dime (actually the Army's). Check out the web pages and let's talk if/when you have questions. Tom